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title: A watched job never spoils
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-watched-job-never-spoils-1941/
description: Long black banner poster with the slogan 'a Watched Job Never Spoils' in white, the letters W, J, N and S picked out in yellow.
section: Collection
---

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[![A watched job never spoils, 1941 US poster: Long black banner poster with the slogan 'a Watched Job Never Spoils' in white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-watched-job-never-spoils-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/a-watched-job-never-spoils-1941.jpg)

# A watched job never spoils

Long black banner poster with the slogan 'a Watched Job Never Spoils' in white, the letters W, J, N and S picked out in yellow, between two yellow ordnance bomb-and-flame badges. The technique is faint here: a reworked proverb used as a slogan, with the highlighted initials as a possible acronym that the sheet does not explain.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
a Watched Job Never Spoils
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : [year illegible]--O--[number illegible]]
[imprint: ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY [rest illegible]]
```

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